Using this on a pixel fold and it’s glorious.
Ooh nice! How are you enjoying the pixel fold?
Loving it. Admittedly, it’s a luxury item and not worth the price for most people but it’s been a better experience than my pixel 6 pro, which google fi gave full me full trade in value for upgrading to the fold.
So I was using Connect for Lemmy which doesn’t have ads injected, so to see this on Sync I’m disappointed.
I’m using connect until AdMob gets addressed
Anyone know if it will support kbin on release?
Eventually, but not when it initially releases
I don’t believe so, mainly because I don’t think the Kbin API is released publicly yet. The only Kbin app I’m aware of at this time is the upcoming !artemisapp@kbin.social.
I think it’s nearing release. Artemis, the only real kbin app, used to use a scraper but the dev recently said she’s rewriting it using the API now.
I put in in pre-install mode in my Google Play, as soon as it’s available, it will be installed automatically, how cool :)
Why is financial info / purchase history collected?
I went to pre register Sync and saw the list of data it collects. It turned me off. I will just keep using Connect for Lemmy.
It looks like there will be a paid version via an in-app purchase, so I imagine that this permission is used for license validation between installs.
EDIT: From the data safety page:
Data collected and for what purpose
Purchase history
App functionality, Account managementTo check your in-app purchases / subscriptions.
Sync can only check its own purchase history.
Right now there’s an IAP for Sync Ultra that is monthly or annual
the hype!
spotted by the /r/Android Reddit community (out of all places)
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Its a feature not a bug. They can stay in their corporate containment hellhole far away from the awesome communities on Lemmy.
Damn, it’s almost like the people that still reddit are the ones you wouldn’t want here in the first place
They can enjoy the shitty official app
or use patched third party clients
No matter the tutorial, written or video, I can never get a revanced version of any app (Sync & YT) working. In the end I just gave up Reddit and got NewPipe for YT.
IDK about Reddit but I’ve been using ReVanced YouTube ane YouTube Music for a while and it works perfectly. Let me know if you need help getting it set up.
Relay still works for some reason
Pretty sure they are operating at a loss while they roll out a subscription model.
Yep, but I’m willing to bet that the dev negotiated something behind the scenes with Reddit to get extra time. If not, he’s probably racking up some serious API costs as Relay is one of the few remaining third-party apps that works without any modifications.
Why would reddit be lenient? Reddit doesn’t want 3rd party money. if they did they would have put out decent rates that 3rd party apps could actually support and would have generated revenue from all the apps. Their goal was to kill them all and they will. The number of people willing to pay $10-12/mo for a reddit 3rd party client that doesn’t allow NSFW posts is going to be tiny.
while they have either A) never tried it or B) they came here for 20 minutes and left
Probably viewed the active local feed and never looked further.
Anyone still using reddit is a lost cause at this point. They’ve thrown their lot in with reddit’s changes wholly.
Either people didn’t care, and they’re the people Reddit really wants them to be, happy with any greedy corporate decision - or they did care and gave up. Not saying what we’re doing is all that high and mighty, it is just social media after all, but on that note it’s just social media. If you aren’t willing to stick to your morals with these small things then what does that say about you and the big things?
I think there’s still 2 broad categories of people who would drop Reddit in a heartbeat, depending on the circumstances.
Those who are stuck to Reddit because that’s where their community exists, and those who just haven’t been able to get over the threshold of understanding how a federated social media ecosystem works and the onboarding process.
The second category can be solved by making it simple enough for your average tech illiterate user to join a server/Lemmy as a whole, and I think the first just needs a large enough impetus to make a move - once communities hit a certain size, they’ll naturally attract more people.
I know for me, I joined Twitter despite not liking the platform because like 90% of the artists I followed on Tumblr left to go there during mass “female-presenting nipples” exodus. If it hadn’t been for those communities migrating, I never would’ve left. And when I left Twitter when the Muskrat bought it (and later left Reddit), I lost all those communities I joined for in the first place. Many of those artists are either on Twitter or Instagram, and that’s it - and I sure as hell want nothing to do with either platform; and the people from those Reddit communities have scattered to the winds or are still there.
One thing I don’t get though for those who are not happy with reddit but continue to use it is why they continue to keep actively participating.
Reddit and Twitter make it easy for people to not need accounts and provide either direct or indirect rss support, and reddit especially makes it easy to lurk on communities without an account through multisubreddit links for a customized feed without needing instances like nitter.
So sense I get is those who keep actively participating and contributing to reddit instead of going accountless and making steps to reduce their footprint there are ones who never were going to leave. And really was just a case of virtue signaling during the height of the protests.
As with many things in life, there’s no one simple reason for this, but I can think of a few factors that probably play into this.
One is that 50% of people are worse than the average person at any given thing, and in this case, I think the 2 relevant things would be tech literacy and concern about things like privacy. As Gen Z has entered the workforce, businesses have apparently begun to express concerns over the lack of tech literacy among applicants, especially when it comes to stuff like desktop software. Which makes sense since Gen Z has grown up in a world where basically everything is app based and on your phone. I’ve worked with highschool-age kids who never had a desktop/laptop in their house growing up. Add to this the average person’s concern on digital privacy and other concerns like the corporate greed that shut down the third party API access - which is basically nonexistent, since many people have trouble caring about something until it personally affects them - and it’s easy to imagine that your average Reddit user, especially lurkers, probably uses Reddit through the official app on their phone and doesn’t even know any other way they potentially could use Reddit. Most of them probably don’t even know what an adblocker is, let alone an RSS feed or something. I believe Reddit themselves said that the people who used third-party apps made up like a fraction of a percentage of the user base, with the next smallest group being those who used the website, and that the majority of people used the official app.
Then you have the force of habit. Habits, once entrenched, are hard to break. People like consistency and are often opposed to changes in their routine, especially ones that don’t have an obviously beneficial aspect to them and ones that will require some amount of effort to change. This is why doomscrolling social media in general is so difficult to stop. You can change platforms, but it takes a conscious effort to choose to stop entirely.
So your average Reddit lurker probably was upset about the change, but since it didn’t personally affect them, they grumbled about it and then went on with their doomscrolling.
Then, you get to the users who actively interact with Reddit, either through posting content or commenting. These are the kinds of people who aren’t going to just stop interacting with the subreddits they’re in and become lurkers, and they have even more reason to be stuck in the habit of using Reddit, because they have the emotional weight/connection to the communities they frequent. These are the kinds of people I was thinking of mainly for my previous comment, because they’re the most likely to stay despite being disgruntled with Reddit’s recent actions. It’s like they’re using Discord even though they think it sucks compared to a similar program because all their friends are on Discord, and all their friends are on Discord because they’re on Discord.
There are also the people who financially depend on social media. People like artists depend on platforms like Reddit because their livelihood depends on them putting their work in front of people’s eyeballs, so they can’t simply leave the big platforms. They might establish themselves on places like Lemmy, but they won’t be able to abandon Reddit simply because that’s the kind of place where the people are.
All of this to say, that basically the tipping point for the mass abandonment of Reddit will only happen when it personally negatively affects the majority of people, or when the better alternatives have a sufficient amount of users/content to make the effort of migrating seem worthwhile. Right now, Reddit just has too much gravity from being established for so long and having such a large userbase to keep your average person from wanting able to leave.
I went and checked… That’s a mischaracterisation. A lot of people are excited, a lot of people are asking what Lemmy is. Some people are saying it sucks but that’s not the general vibe. There are quite a few people saying they visit both Reddit and Lemmy and enjoy Lemmy a lot more and go there first.
Jives with my own experience, TBH.
I bet a large number of the negative comments only checked out Lemmy the weeks of the protests. I think their critiques are very accurate for that time period. But I think Lemmy now is a lot better than a month ago and a viable alternative to Reddit.
As long as the masses don’t all flock to just one server, the next time reddit fucks up it’ll be a much softer place to land. The only problem is the niche communities and they’re survivability when transferring over.
This really does feel like the early days of reddit. Where small, niche communities have to just keep plugging along until they hit a self-sustaining number of active users, and I didn’t realize how much I missed that till I came here.
It’s so much more personal. It’s way better to get 20 upvotes and 15 comments on a community of 150 than it is to get 1k upvotes on a community of 125k
I tried to explain this during the tumultuous time to people but most of the reaction I got was ‘it didn’t work perfectly the one time I used it so it’s not actually worth more than hot shit’.
Good, honestly. I personally could do without the type of person to write something off as bad on a single individual interaction with something that has a legitimate reason to not operate 100% at perfect level. It’s childish and I would rather those people stay on reddit and ruin THAT place
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I’ve never been as excited for an app to be released as this one!
Been a sync user since day 1 and I’m looking forward to continuing to support it.
I used RIF, but I remember a lot of people loved sync for reddit, so I plan to jump on the bandwagon.
A fellow RiFugee
I wish they had chosen Lemmy instead. I loved that app and still haven’t had the heart to delete from my phone.
I’ve been using an app called Summit for Lemmy, and it feels very RiF-esque. RiF was the only way I used Reddit, and it’s made the transition very easy. In fact, in some ways, I feel it’s done some quality of life stuff even better than RiF did, like color coding comment chains, which makes it easier to keep track of who’s responding to who.
RiF went to tildes, if you hadn’t heard.
Anybody got an invite to tildes? Please pm me
Email the dev
I’d heard that, but I’m not super interested in tildes. Lemmy and the fediverse have been great.
Agreed. I’m moving past the idea of link aggregators in general now. I’m back into RSS now, and skipping the endless scrolling.
Where would I start for RSS? Genuinely…
Freshrss has a self-hosted option or you can sign up to a community driven server.
I use Feeder, and most sites I’m interested in have RSS feeds discovered if I plug in just the URL of their front page. Other sites can be a bit more of a pain, bit you can often just add /RSS or /feeds to the URL and the readers will work it out.
I’m also curious. What Readers are people using these days? Preferably on android?
I’ve been using Read You from F-Droid. It’s still in early-ish development but it’s simple with a clean design.
I use Inoreader and recommend it. I pay for Pro.
Feedly’s been solid after Google killed Google reader. But they’ve been adding features that make it more similar to Flipboard. I’m also looking for something simple and straight to the point.
So hyped for this. I’ve completely moved on from Reddit and this will help solidify the decision. All the screenshots of the app up til now look really good.
I logged into reddit for that post. Man, I do not miss reddit at all.
Happy more notable support is joining but I think it will be hard for me to leave Voyager (tAfka Wefwef) at this point.
In case anyone doesn’t know yet, there is a iOS testflight app available. For me the haptics that is not present in the webapp made it so much more enjoyable to use.
Absolutely, the way the Voyager team has pushed out updates and made this app comparable to Apollo in a month has been incredible.
Even if Christian from Apollo did decide to make an app on Lemmy I still probably wouldn’t leave Voyager.
Voyager is like an open source Apollo. It’s incredible
As a former Sync user, I do miss the markdown help. But otherwise it’s tight
I’m sure it will come. Here’s an open issue where the dev has responded https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367
I’m sure it will come. Here’s an open issue where the dev has responded https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367
How do you install voyager? Is it on the Play Store?
You install it as a webapp from your browser.
Not yet, you can build it from the GitHub source but it’s a mainly a web app for any platform. We’re trying to talk the dev into putting it up on F-Droid as well.
Since you’re on lemmy.world, you can use m.lemmy.world
And here I am, waiting for a “Lemmy is Fun” app.
Relay for me. But it looks like Sync finally added swipe gestures so I’ll just use that, since my favorite app isn’t getting a Lemmy port. Connect and Voyager are too clunky for daily use. Can’t wait until Sync launches.
(Edit: I just hope it shows downvote counts, comment previews, and has a tablet mode… Oh and doesn’t refresh the page every time I post something.)
Fellow Relay refugee. I welcome the swipe drawer even though it misses some actions. My biggest grudge is probably scaling. The font sizes are way too small and adjusting them in settings doesn’t seem to adjust them everywhere (e.g. this reply screen I’m looking at right now).
Overall I’m positive. I’ll probably duel-wield Sync and Jerboa and see which one brings the most pleasure.
Ive found connect is a pretty great alternative if you haven’t already checked it out.
Same same
Connect dev here, glad you’re liking it!
It is a great app, thanks for developing Connect.
I use it sometimes, but with the instability of lemmy and being kicked from my login, not having saved logins is really annoying. I finally figured out that my keyboard app has been adding a space to the end of my username because it detects it as a saved word, and I don’t always remember this, so sometimes its a 2-3 attempt process just to log in and use the app.
This is one users 2 cents, I’m not really saying I dislike your app more than I am taking the opportunity to bitch to someone who will listen
I’ve really been enjoying it, although I have a problem with it. I have it set to hide seen posts, and when I try to see the top week posts, it says that there aren’t any. When I try it on wefwef, however, it shows posts. I’m assuming it’s something to do with how the post lookup works, where it will only retrieve a certain amount of posts to show and if I have seen them all, it won’t retrieve more? (wefwef takes a while to retrieve new posts, so I assume that’s what it’s doing)
While we’re all talking about Connect (and this could probably be a support post in the community but whatever), is anybody else having an issue that the app isn’t showing all comments? I can get it to show different ones by changing the sort but it doesn’t seem like there is a way to view all comments in a post. I don’t think it’s the result of a block or defederation.
hell yeah another connect brother
My brother we stand united 🫡
Former RIF user for over a decade here. Now using connect and is not too bad of a transition.
Waiting for Boost for Lemmy here.
He’s only making a Tildes app 😞
Isn’t Tildes still invite only and basically denying everyone their application?
You can request an invite by emailing them or posting in the reddit tildes thread
No? It doesn’t feel like Reddit / Lemmy though either. I don’t have an account, but it feels really dead compared to Lemmy. I considered switching to Tildes, but the communities are too wide, like there isn’t a Futurama community, just a TV one, there isn’t a Retro games community, just a games one.
It makes sense when you have a small userbase, but I care about niche communities and Lemmy offers that, and some are even slightly alive here.
The user base was also too narrow. It felt like they wanted a specific kind of community, to a place open to just anyone.
Because my brain is 60-70% walnut, I thought you made a joke about abbreviating Tildes is Fun to TIT.
Tildes is Terrific?
Reddit is making the same mistake that 3DFX made against Nvidia and ATI back in the day with third party developers. Restricting 3rd party development was suicidal on reddit’s part.
Ultimately, people want choices, and I think if the average user see only one reddit app vs a literal wall of different Lemmy apps, they will be inclined to try at least one Lemmy app instead.
I disagree that the majority of people want choices, at least when it comes to social media. The vast majority of social media users want to be where the user base is at. For Lemmy to be the more attractive option, it either needs to have do similar numbers to it’s competitor or offer something very unique and useful that the others don’t.
And I say this as someone who has been much happier on Lemmy than I have been the last few years on Reddit.
I’m perfectly okay of those types of social media users go somewhere else. They like what they like, I like what I like.
Will it have the same Foldable phone optimization as the reddit version?
I would assume. No other app has to my knowledge so it would be a nice killer feature.
Good news for you: [yes].(https://lemmy.world/comment/1003891)
Wait, do foldable phones require their own optimizations? On one hand, cool, but on the other hand, not sure I want one as much now.
The Material Design 3 guidelines expresses how content should flow with foldable with slight differences compared to a tablet, for example:
https://m3.material.io/foundations/layout/canonical-layouts/list-detail
But you can mostly get away with a standard, two-pane layout as you would a tablet, though the center padding may be off.
You probably want the center 24dp spacer to be where the crease is, but it gets a bit complicated if you want to use a Nav Rail since it’ll offset your layout by 80dp. Here is a web based demo of what the configurations can look like.
Yes and no. For some apps, the developers have it set to scale to larger screens or have a certain layout when it detects that the DPI surpasses a certain threshold. This is really how they just get all of these apps to scale for traditional smartphones in general since there are many different screens sizes out there. What I’m referencing is that Sync is one of the few apps that goes from a traditional phone app when folded shut, to a dedicated tablet layout when the phone opens. Other apps such as Outlook, Gmail, Relay for Reddit, YouTube, Google Calendar, and some more apps do this as well.
Right now, Samsung’s Foldables have the ability to force apps to expand to the aspect ratio of the inner display for any application. The Pixel Fold, however, doesn’t include this feature so there are some apps that genuinely just stay in a traditional aspect ratio of a smartphone and doesn’t expand to take advantage of the screen real estate on the bigger display (if the developers didn’t build it in). The good thing about this is that for the Pixel Fold, because of the aspect ratio of the inside screen, you can have two regular sized apps splitting the screen side by side and it looks really good.
Google is doing this though to force app developers to start making tablet optimized apps and is even incentivizing developers by pushing their apps to the featured page of the Google Play Store once their app fully supports tablet displays. Apps that don’t make the change however, will have a message displayed for us foldable or Android tablet users that will say something like, “This app may not be fully compatible with your display,” when we go to install it.
A lot of information but yeah that’s the current foldable situation. I’ve been using foldables since the first Galaxy Z Fold and am now on the Pixel Fold. Absolutely love folding devices and will never return to a traditional slab phone.
The overall UI should be basically unchanged
I’ve wanted Reddit to burn for awhile. It devolved into nothing but a circle jerk.
It took like 12 years for reddit to become full circle jerk? Maybe we get a good 7-10 from lemmy
Unlike Lemmy where, god forbid, someone has a center or right wing opinion?
Edit: welp…
It’s not just centre or right opinions, anything that’s not full on Stalinist genocide is downvoted and reported furiously. Basically the same shit as on Reddit.
“Why is everyone persecuting me for having a different opinion?!” they cried.
Check out their comment history for context. Such insightful tidbits as “every leftist should be in jail”, “Go live in North Korea”, and my favorite, “wut, are you an idiot?”.
It’s the same shit as Reddit because you’re the same shit on both platforms.
Yeah, if you’re supporting genocidal regimes, go live in North Korea. You don’t belong in a civilised society with such logic.
Clearly someone who disagrees with you or calls out your…checks notes… bad behavior must support genocidal regimes. It’s only natural!
Why is it those who make arguments about logic so often are completely lacking in the ability to use it?
Dicks out
Good thing Lemmy instances aren’t made from much smaller communities where everyone has more or less the same opinion…
Unless Lemmy would be considered more of an echo chamber for their respective communities versus a circlejerk?
I’d argue that individual instances aren’t all that important. Im on a smaller instances and hardly ever bump into people from my own instance.
When instances start defederating and closing some instances off, I could see, but even then those users would just make another account elsewhere to participate in the “all” of lemmy
I hardly bump into people. Period. Most I see are posts with zero engagement
